The author is a poet, counsellor, and occasional scholar-in-residence. Musings on everything from advaita ("non-dualism") to sustainable living, interspersed with poems. Thanks to Zvi Jaspan of Kibbutz Tzora for the name for this blog.

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Ten alternative facts about chickens

1) chickens are descended from tyrannosaurus rex

2) Young chickens, called chicks, hatch from eggs

3) the chicks feed on their mother's milk during the first few hours
after hatching. Because mature hens have only one mammary gland (
chicken breast) which is difficult to find, competition​ to feed can be fierce, and the chicks will sometimes eat each other
alive, to get rid of their siblings 4) Chickens, like the fish they eat, can actually count 6)) When angry, a chicken will count to ten 7) The flesh of chickens may be brown or white, but never both in the same bird, largely due to archaic segregation laws 8) chickens have thighs, but no calves 9) some chickens are male, but the vast majority are female. In rare instances a chicken may self pollinate 10) chickens tend to think on their feet

Please send any more facts you have on these fascinating amphibians so we can add them to our data base. Thank you

"Everyone's got to serve someone"

a "hogeh deyot" - Hebrew for someone who thinks a lot about things that are not directly related to the daily round. I worships two G?ds, that are probably one and the same - creativity and balance. Sat. Chit. Ananda. Gila Rina Ditza ve Chedva. Adoshem Hu Elokim. Veshal-om shanti shanti.